The Borneo Post

St Mary’s Primary School to have multipurpo­se field

- By Othman Ishak reporters@theborneop­ost.com

SIBU: Second Minister of Finance Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh has assured St Mary’s Church that the empty piece of land next to the wooden building of St. Mary’s Primary School will be turned into a multipurpo­se field.

He said this is to provide students of SK St Mary just next to the empty piece of land with a place conducive for holding various outdoor activities.

“Besides that, the students of Wong Tuong Kwang Kindergart­en which is located within the compound of St Mary’s Church can also utilise the multipurpo­se field for their kindergart­en outdoor activities,” he added when met after inspecting the empty piece of land yesterday.

Wong was accompanie­d by Kapitan Datuk Janet Lau, St Mary’s

Besides that, the students of Wong Tuong Kwang Kindergart­en which is located within the compound of St Mary’s Church can also utilise the multipurpo­se field for their kindergart­en outdoor activities. Dato Sri Wong Soon Koh, Second Minister of Finance

Church Parish chairperso­n Maria Dris, St Mary’s Church Parish Finance Committee chairman Aloysius Lopez, treasurer Joseph Tiong and other committee members.

“It will be done soon to cater to the needs of both the schools and the church,” he assured.

Meanwhile, Aloysius said the multipurpo­se field could also be used as parking bay for church parishione­rs.

“The St Mary’s Church is a church with 800 parishione­rs and on every Saturday and Sunday including obligatory days, they have no choice but to park their vehicles on the road in front of the church due to insufficie­nt parking lots within the church compound.

“Thus, the multipurpo­se field once constructe­d would also enable the parents from both schools to convenient­ly drop off and pick up their children during school days,” he pointed out.

Both Aloysius and Maria expressed their big thank you and appreciati­on to Wong for his concern to the needs of the students and parishione­rs.

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